Comment on New, Bigger HN RSS FeedparentComments−pgOP14yWe randomly throw older items out of memory. If they're needed again they'll get reloaded from disk, but it's unlikely they'll be needed soon because older stuff is mostly visited by crawlers or random Google traffic.
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We randomly throw older items out of memory. If they're needed again they'll get reloaded from disk, but it's unlikely they'll be needed soon because older stuff is mostly visited by crawlers or random Google traffic.